Training Program In Visual Neuroscience

描述(由申请者提供)：本培训计划的目标是为博士后研究员提供视觉神经科学的跨学科培训。多年来，索尔克研究所一直是视觉神经科学社区的所在地，该社区在方法上一直非常富有成效和进步，在共同感兴趣的话题上进行了不同寻常的合作。这个社区现在由视觉神经生物学中心(CNV)组成，其中包括采用各种实验方法-分子、遗传、细胞、系统和计算-的研究项目，并研究构成视觉感觉、感知、认知、视觉引导行为、视觉可塑性、学习、记忆和发育的神经结构和事件。CNV的12名培训教师共同拥有漫长、多样化和非常成功的视觉神经科学培训记录，包括博士后和博士后。拟议的培训计划将把重点放在跨学科的研究项目上，探索从分子到行为的各个层次的视觉系统组织和功能，解决处理层次中的多个阶段，并使人们能够理解视觉功能的病理。拟议项目的管理结构由执行委员会组成，执行委员会由T.奥尔布赖特主任和委员会成员(E.Callaway、R.Krauzlis、D.O‘Leary和T.Sejnowski)组成，代表我们的研究优势：知觉的神经关联、神经元电路和机制、发育和可塑性以及视觉功能障碍。将提供一系列现代技术方面的培训，包括电生理学、神经解剖学、功能磁共振成像、心理物理学、分子遗传学和理论/计算建模。考虑到我们项目的博士后申请者的高质量，现在和过去的学员都取得了持续的成功，以及用于视觉神经科学培训的私人资金不断减少，我们请求为四名博士后学员提供支持，这将确保培训的持续进行，并利用我们由NEI支持的15个研究项目的生产力。 与公共健康相关：索尔克研究所是一个非常活跃的科学家社区，他们正在研究视觉系统的组织、功能和发展。拟议对特别合格的博士后研究员进行现代视觉神经科学概念和技术方面的培训，将确保在了解正常视觉功能和开发有效的视觉病理治疗方法方面取得进一步进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this training program is to provide postdoctoral fellows with interdisciplinary training in visual neuroscience. The Salk Institute has for many years been home to a visual neuroscience community that has been highly productive and progressive in its approach, with an unusual degree of collaboration on topics of shared interest. This community now comprises the Center for the Neurobiology of Vision (CNV), which includes research programs that employ a variety of experimental approaches - molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and computational - and address the neural structures and events that underlie visual sensation, perception, cognition, visually-guided behavior, visual plasticity, learning, memory and development. The twelve training faculty of the CNV collectively boast a lengthy, diverse and highly successful record of visual neuroscience training of both pre- and postdoctoral students. The proposed training program will place emphasis on research projects that are interdisciplinary, explore visual system organization and function across levels ranging from molecules to behavior, address multiple stages in the processing hierarchy and enable understanding of pathologies of visual function. The administrative structure of the proposed program comprises an Executive Committee with director T. Albright and committee members (E. Callaway, R. Krauzlis, D. O'Leary, and T. Sejnowski) representative of our research strengths: neural correlates of perception, neuronal circuits and mechanisms, development and plasticity, and disorders of visual function. Training will be provided in a range of modern techniques including electrophysiology, neuroanatomy, fMRI, psychophysics, molecular genetics, and theory/computational modeling. In view of the high quality of postdoctoral applicants to our program, the consistent successes of current and past trainees, and diminishing private funds for training in visual Neuroscience, we are requesting support for four postdoctoral trainees, which will ensure the maintenance of this training and leverage the productivity of our fifteen NEI-supported research programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Salk Institute is home to an extremely active community of scientists investigating the organization, function and development of the visual system. The proposed training of exceptionally qualified postdoctoral fellows in the concepts and techniques of modern visual neuroscience will ensure further advances in understanding of normal visual function and the development of effective treatments for pathologies of vision.